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by swillden 6265 days ago
With IBM it was a forgone conclusion that Solaris would have vanished

IBM currently sells OS/390, OS/400 and AIX while also pushing Linux and only recently stopped selling OS/2. I think it's quite likely that Solaris would have just joined the list.
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gaius 6265 days ago
IBM GS would happily sell you Solaris services, but there's no way they'd port Solaris to POWER.
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hapless 6265 days ago
Solaris 2.5 and 2.5.1 were ported to IBM PReP systems in the 90s. You could order certain models of PPC workstation with AIX, Solaris, Windows NT, or OS/2 preloaded.
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gaius 6264 days ago
Haha, I remember when you could get Windows NT on SPARC too... Not the same thing as being a real product tho'.
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